Ministers call them into the vineyard, to do their work; death calls them out of the vineyard, to receive their penny: and those to whom the call into the vineyard is effectual, the call out of it will be joyful. Matthew 20:16. Time would fail now to dwell on this chapter, interesting as it is. 13. Did you not come to an agreement with me to work for 4 pence ? It is but a day's work that is here done. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The scribes, at the beginning of the chapter, could not hide from the Lord their bitter rejection of His glory as man on earth entitled, as His humiliation and cross would prove, to forgive. Who but God could command not only the waves, but the fish of the sea? All of this takes the simple picture Jesus gave too far. They may come at the beginning of their life, in their youth, in adulthood, in old age, or at the very end. Not that His own rejection was not before His spirit, but here He looks not beyond that land and people; and, as far as the twelve were concerned, He sends them on a mission which goes on to the end of the an. There were many that followed Christ now in the regeneration, when the gospel kingdom was first set up, and these Jewish converts seemed to have got the start of others; but Christ, to obviate and silence their boasting, here tells them. Or is your eye evil because I am good? This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. It was an imperfect faith but they acted on it; and Jesus accepted it. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. So they went. The scourging was an extremely painful experience. Three things the master of the house urges, in answer to this ill-natured surmise. That the same night that in which Jesus was betrayed, He took bread, and when He had broken it, He said, take eat this is my body which is broken for you. See Matthew 19:27-29. The scribe had no heart for the hidden glory. Jesus said, "They will scourge me. They couldn't see Him. The crowd rebuked them, so that they might be silent. Many are called, c.] This clause is wanting in BL, one other, and in the Coptic and Sahidic versions. He was not called. c. Lord, Son of David: However, in their desperation they glorified Jesus. "Upon this rock," says He, "I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." And they said unto him, We're able ( Matthew 20:22 ). To lose all for heavenly treasure, to come and follow the despised Nazarene here below what was it to compare with that which had brought Jesus to earth? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Secondly, Obedient believers agree with God for their penny in the other world, and they must remember that they have so agreed. Then the mother of Zebedees sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. In what sense did Jesus, our Lord, take their infirmities, and bear their sicknesses? And everybody will always try to discourage you, but persist, for there is a whole new life. b. Plainly, the church isnt to operate the way the world does. General Epistles For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. When evening came, the master of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the workers, and give them their pay, beginning from the last and going on until you come to the first.' Considerable time, it is true, elapsed between the two facts; but this only makes it the more sure and plain, that they are grouped together with a divine purpose. "On his first night he was asked to share his bed with a man suffering from contagious itch. They supposed that they would receive more: The men who worked for the landowner all day saw the men who worked for only an hour come away from the pay table, and they supposed, If the landowner is paying these guys a full days pay for one hours work, then we will get far more., i. An evil eye was a phrase in use, among the ancient Jews, to denote an envious, covetous man or disposition; a man who repined at his neighbours prosperity, loved his own money, and would do nothing in the way of charity for Gods sake. (Clarke). First, Carnal worldlings agree with God for their penny in this world; they choose their portion in this life (Psalms 17:14); in these things they are willing to have their reward (Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:5), their consolation (Luke 6:24), their good things (Luke 16:25); and with these they shall be put off, shall be cut off from spiritual and eternal blessings; and herein God does them no wrong; they have what they chose, the penny they agreed for; so shall their doom be, themselves have decided it; it is conclusive against them. The landowner rebuked them for their jealousy and resentment of the landowners generosity towards others. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner, Whatever is right I will give you whatever is right you will receive, Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first, They supposed that they would receive more, equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. "This [fellow]," etc. When He reaches the house, minstrels were there, and people, making a noise: the expression, if of woe, certainly of impotent despair. No word whatever implies that the cleansing of the leper happened at that time. A ransom is something paid or given to liberate a man from a situation from which it is impossible to free himself. (Barclay), iii. Now life treated James and John very differently. It appears to me, that the nature or aim of Mark's gospel demands this. He was to be mocked by the Romans; there we see the suffering of humiliation and of deliberate insult. In the Christian Church seniority does not necessarily mean honour. A similar principle applies to the little children, who are next introduced; and the same thing is true substantially of natural or moral character here below. God, by his gospel, is hiring labourers into his vineyard, to dress it, and keep it, paradise-work. If I assume from the words "set forth in order," in the beginning of Luke's gospel, that therefore his is the chronological account, it will only lead me into confusion, both as to Luke and the other gospels; for proofs abound that the order of Luke, most methodical as he is, is by no means absolutely that of time. And He prophesied so accurately the things.First of all, He is going to be betrayed. Subsequent, considerably, to this was the case of the centurion's servant, preceded a good while before by the cleansing of the leper. When we are converted, we become members of Christs living body; and as we grow in grace, and get the true spirit that permeates that body, we shall say, when any member of it is honored, This is honor for usIf any brother shall be greatly honored of God, I feel honored in his honor. Oh, what a heart is ours! Thus explained, this parable has no reference to the call of the Gentiles, nor to the call of aged sinners, nor to the call of sinners out of the church at all. It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. The only reason we will receive any reward is that God has called us to be His workers. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. Deuteronomy 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:9). (Carson), ii. Has nothing yet had power to engage us to sacred service? Now Paul said if you understand this, when you partake of the broken bread, you can receive from God a work of His Spirit in your body.Now many who do not understand this, are weak and sick, because they do not understand the Lord's body. He stands with the juvenile delinquents. God's delight is to pick out the hindmost for the first place, to the disparagement of the foremost in their own strength. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. "Then," said the Lord, "are the children free. About the third hour, [nine o'clock in the morning], he saw others standing idle in the market place, and he said unto them; Go into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. A hook is cast into the sea, and the fish that takes it produces the required money for Peter as for his gracious Master and Lord. In truth, this was Emmanuel, God with us. What Jesus calls upon his followers to do he himself did. He tells them that they should not have gone over (or finished) the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come. They did not see why the two brothers should steal a march on them, even if they were the cousins of Jesus. He that would be great among you, let him be your servant and if you want to be chief, then become the bondslave." For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner: Like many of Jesus parables, this story is about an employer and those who work for him. After the creation of consuls, they every year named twenty-four military tribunes, part of whom must have served five years at least, and the rest eleven. There were many who died right there as the result of the scourging itself. The landowner reminded them that he had paid them the amount they had agreed to, and if he paid others the same amount, that was his concern. (2.) 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. The landowner reminded them that he had been completely fair to them. Matthew 20:1-16 is a true-to-life parable. We shall find something of these mysteries later on in this gospel; but here it is simply a Jewish testimony of Jehovah-Messiah in His unwearied love, through His twelve heralds, and in spite of rising unbelief, maintaining to the end what His grace had in view for Israel. Thereon the Lord also has His word to say, first reminding Peter of his new name suitably to what follows. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And thus He, whose glory was so forgotten by His disciples Jesus, Himself thinks of that very disciple, and says, "For me and thee.". Will be betrayed: Conceivably, Jesus could have been delivered to the religious authorities without this. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. People simply do not and cannot MERIT salvation. Matthew 5:45). Jesus' conclusion to the parable mirrors the formula introduced at Matthew 19:30, which leads into the parable: "So the last will be first, and the first will be last" (20:16; see also 19:30). Many of them bleed to death. What is mine, is mine to do with as I please." He was to be betrayed into the hands of the chief priests and Scribes; there we see the suffering of the heart broken by the disloyalty of friends. Thus it was not merely that there was an evil heart of unbelief in the Jew particularly, but law and grace cannot be yoked together. Not even their wonderful "attitude" entitled them to a day's pay. 1. . So the last shall be first, and the first last,. As he had asserted in Matthew 19:30 and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but, few chosen; in Christ from all eternity, both to grace and glory; and in consequence, and as an evidence of it, but few among the Jews; as also in the Gentile world, comparatively speaking: and even but a few of those that are outwardly called, are inwardly and effectually called by the powerful grace of God, out of darkness into marvellous light, into the grace and liberty of the Gospel, into communion with Christ, and to the obtaining his kingdom and glory, according to the eternal purpose of God.
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